University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWS PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Friday, January 11, 1946
43rd Year No. 65
Lawrence, Kansas
Urge Colleges to Have Sports for Veterans
St. Louis. (UP)—Colleges today were urged to make a place in their athletic programs for the returning war veterans—boys interested in competitive sports but not good enough for varsity teams.
enough Dr. Wilbur C. Smith of Louisiana State university, president of the National Collegiate Athletic association, told NCAA delegates in his annual report that colleges should take full advantage of the great benefits credited to competitive athletics during the service experience of World War II.
London. (UP)—Paul Henri Spak of Belgium, president of the United Nations general assembly, appealed to the 51 member nations today to subordinate their particular interests to the general interests of everyone in the world organization.
Strike Picture Today:
(By United Press)
President Truman's fact finding board has recommended a 19% cent wage increase for 175,000 striking General Motors workers. Today's developments in other major strikes
Steel—CIO workers at the aluminium company of America plant at New Kensington, Pa., began walking out at noon today-60 hours before their union's deadline for a nation-wide strike of the steel and aluminium industries.
Communications-Seven thousand Western Union operators continued on strike in New York City.
Meat—A deadlock developed between the meat packing industry and the CIO packing house workers union, scheduled to strike Wednesday.
Topeka. (UP)—The highway commission today awarded highway contracts totaling slightly over a million dollars for paving, grading, resurfacing and fixing of bridges.
The counties which will derive most of the alloted funds are McPherson, Saline, Morris, Clay, Cowley and Rush.
'King for a Week-End Is Lucky G.I. Prize
Tokyo. (UP)—Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson told press conference today that more than half of the 807,000 servicemen in the Pacific on Jan. 1 will be relieved within four months without replacements.
Salina (UP)—Some lucky GI now a patient at the Smoky Hill station hospital, will be "king for a week-end" in McPherson, beginning Jan. 18,' under sponsorship by the McPherson War Dads to show their appreciation of the average American soldier.
Washington (UP)—The government proposed today to slice up surplus barracks and reassemble them as two bedroom apartments for homeless veterans.
can soldier.
The winner soldier answering Vox-Pop questions most ably will be given a free trip to McPherson. Highlights of the trip will include the finest hotel accommodations, honorary 'mayorship of McPherson on Saturday and breakfast served in bed on Sunday morning by two of McPherson's prettiest young women.
You Won't Be Able to Buy A Hamburger for a Million
A million dollars won't buy a hamburger when inflation hits the speech department next week.
week. Prof. Allen Crafton will discuss inflation at Topeka High school Monday.
More than 200 students will give talks on various aspects of inflation in speech classes during the week.
TelephoneTie-Up Paralyzes Nation
New York. (UP)—Long distance telephone service across the nation was paralyzed and local service curtailed at many points today, and there was no immediate prospect of an end of picketing of telephone exchanges in key cities of 44 states.
In Lawrence only emergency long distance calls can be put through Kansas City and points east, J. C. Quigley of the Southwestern Bell Telephone company stated today. Calls can still be put to and through Topeka but not through Salina, Wichita and points west.)
In Kansas City, Mo., bickets were placed around four buildings of the Southwestern Bell Telephone company shortly after last midnight and members of the local union, refusing to cross the lines, halted long distance service.
ticket office information board was not functioning. However, emergency service on toll calls were being handled.
The picket line was practically 100 per cent effective. Only a few operators and company officials entered the four telephone buildings.
About 200 women employees have agreed to sleep on cots in the central office and are to be fed in the company cafeteria, S. B. Eversull, division communication superintendent said. There have been no disturbances, a company spokesman stated.
The Telephone Traffic employees association in Detroit announced today that 3,000 of its members had been on day away from the Detroit exchange of the Michigan Bell Telephone company in the spreading strike of the Association of Telephone Equipment Workers.
Koo's Speech to Put Accent on Religion
Religious Emphasis week activities will begin with an all-University convocation Tuesday, with T. Z. Koo, Oriental secretary for the Student Christian movement, discussing "Christianity in the Atomic Age." Julia Casad, president of the Student Religious council, announced today.
Several panel discussions with faculty members and students will be conducted during the week, including a mock "trial" of religion, Miss Casad said.
The Y.W.C.A. convention Jan.19 and a meeting of all student religious groups Jan.20 will conclude the week's program.
Leonard Brown Represents Engineers On Student Council
Winter Jayhawker Will Have Group House Pictures
The winter issue of the Jayhawker which contains pictures of all the organized houses, will be ready Jan. 22, Hanna Hendrick, editor, announced today.
nounced today. Students may still obtain copies of the first issue, he added.
LEONARD BROWN
Leonard Brown, a 20-year-old sailor representing the School of Engineering on the All-Student Council, will be graduated in February with a major in mechanical engineering.
Leonard, who lives in Kansas City, Mo., previously attended the junior college there. He is the A.S.C. secretary and a member of the elections committee.
He belongs to Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, the Ku Ku ctub, and three honorary engineering traitemities, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Tau, and Pi Tau Sigma, of which he is president. He also is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
After graduation, he plans to enter the Westinghouse Graduate Training program.
Hibbard Replaces Hethcock In Navy Unit Monday
Lt. H. G. Hibbard, navy V-12 unit, will assume his duties as head of housing and mess Monday, Condr. R. J. Baum, executive officer of the navy V-12 unit, announced today.
Lt. Hibbard will replace Lt. Ira Hethcock, now eligible for discharge, who will leave the detachment Monday.
Top University Dilemma: $300,000 For Housing —But No Houses In Sight
By ELEANOR ALBRIGHT (Daily Kansan Managing Editor)
E. C. BUEHLER
'No One Will Be Turned Away'
Voice May Reflect Your Bad Liver Or Tight Shoes, Buehler Says
There are "a sufficient number of apartments to meet the foreseeable need" for veterans and their families, the Chancellor added.
K. U. "does not expect to turn away students either for lack of teaching facilities or because of housing shortages for the spring semester," Chancellor Deane W. Malott declared in a prepared statement today.
the Central housing office on the campus through the cooperation of Lawrence residents, "has been able to meet the day to day demand from unmarried students, veterans and otherwise, for single and double rooms," a release from the office of the University's public relations director stated today.
Youngberg Will Head K.U. Housing Office
"Every person carries with him the most perfect lie-detecting apparatus in the world," Prof. E. C. Buehler of the speech department, told the Forensic league last night in the
An embarrassed University administration today faces an acute case of "housing shortage-itis" and at the same time can feel gifts of nearly 300 thousand dollars to build new student housing burning a hole in its pocket.
Irvin F. Youngberg, '42, has been appointed head of the central housing office, which is located in room 220, Frank Strong hall. Mrs. Jean Moody, who has served in that capacity, will remain as secretary of the office. Mr. Youngberg also will direct University housing at Sunflower village.
After graduation from the University, Mr. Youngberg taught in the School of Business during 1942-43. He enlisted in the navy in November, 1943. As a lieutenant (j.g.), he took part in the invasion of both south France and Okinawa.
Union.
The human voice reflects every change in emotion and even the condition of your liver and whether or not your shoes hurt, Professor Buehler explained.
He played recordings of famous voices which have made history—Churchill, King Edward VIII, Gladstone, Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, and United States presidents from McKinley to Truman.
man.
"Oratory plays a more important part in history than ever before." Professor Buehler stated. "William Jennings Bryan would have had to speak 40 years to reach as many persons as President Roosevelt did in 40 minutes."
Parts of the body involving speech are primarily instruments of survival used for breathing and eating, he explained.
"The development of these organs as speech producing organs is the 'missing link' separating man from other animals," he declared. "Man does not understand or its mystery of the human voice or its strange power in swaying others."
The situation, as peculiar a paradox as The Hill has seen since the war, looks like this: University officials find hundreds of veterans who wish to attend school here, beginning next month and next fall. There is an ever-increasing demand for entrance into KU, and enrollment records probably will be smashed several times before another year rolls around.
On the other hand, there have been many provisions made for financing the additional housing that will be necessary when the campus population nudges the 5.090 mark. The total now available for housing construction stands at 296 thousand, which will build a lot of dormitories.
There's only one little trouble. All this money is fine, but no additional housing has gone beyond the paper stage.
Plans have yet to be approved by the state architect before contract-bidding can begin on the most modest of the housing projects in sight— a 64-man facility to be built under the stadium, and a 56-man addition to be placed behind Robinson gymnasium. The stadium housing was supposed to be ready by next fall, but prospects for that are also.
Last spring, 201 thousand dollars came to the University from alumni friends, the Fearsons. The two residence halls it provided haven't even reached the blueprint stage, after more than six months of delay.
An anonymous donor recently gave 20 thousand dollars, and the will of Mrs. Lyle A. Stevenson, widow of a Kansas City insurance man, brought $75,000 more for housing just this month.
No decision has been made on any plans for use of either of these funds.
Meantime, the shortage of places to hang-the-hat-and-lay-the-head have discouraged more than one prospective new student here. Veterans, many of them married and with children, are hit hardest of all.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to Chancellor Deane W. Malloft, predicted today that it would be a hard struggle, but all persons seriously interested in K.U. could be housed in February—providing the enrollment doesn't zoom way above the anticipated 4,500.
The University hasn't just been sitting back quietly and letting all this dilemma build up around it, naturally. Here are some of the steps Hill officials have taken:
Four University-owned homes on McCook and Indiana streets are being remodeled now to accommodate women students, but they'll handle only about 40- and those will be residents of Locksley hall, which will be returned to the Sigma Nu fraternity next month, so new students won't find any solace in the
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WEATHER
Kansas—Colder tonight. Lowest temperatures 10 to 15 northwest, 20 to 25 southeast. Tomorrow mostly cloudy, diminishing. Light snow east, colder, much colder east. Strong northerly winds tomorrow and in most of state late tonight.